Four people have been arrested on suspicion of fraudulent activities during Afghanistan's parliamentary elections, the attorney general's office said Thursday.

Two are suspected of taking money from candidates running for parliamentary seats during the September vote, Deputy Attorney General Rahmatiullah Nazari said.

They had apparently introduced themselves to candidates as European Union observers, "but it's not clear who they were working for and that is what we are investigating at this point," Nazari said.

There was no immediate comment from the European Union.

The two others are believed to be money exchange dealers, he said.

The arrests came the same day the attorney general said his office is investigating allegations of fraud in the elections.

The investigation was launched after both the winning and losing sides filed complaints against the Afghan Independent Election Commission and the Election Complaint Commission, the attorney general's office said.

The spokesmen of both commissions have been suspended over corruption charges and are accused of making statements against Afghan national interests, said Hafizullah Hafiz, director of the complaint commission in the attorney general's office.

Authorities have also arrested a number of people suspected of fraudulent activities - specifically, having exchanged or planned to exchange money for votes, Hafiz said.

Officials on Wednesday announced results from all but one of Afghanistan's 34 provinces.

Votes from more than 3,000 polling stations were thrown out because of suspected fraud, but the final results will stand, said Fazal Ahmad Manawi, who heads the Independent Election Commission.

The 11 seats allocated for Ghazni province have yet to be finalized, said the commission's Zekria Barakzai.

Ghazni remains unresolved because a deteriorating security situation kept voters in many parts of that province from casting a ballot in the September 18 elections. Barakzai said the election commission will decide the status of the Ghazni seats next week.

It is not known yet which one of Afghanistan's ethnic groups, including the Pashtun-speaking majority, won the most seats in the Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of the National Assembly.

The United States welcomed the certified election results, saying that despite irregularities, the election commission and the Electoral Complaints Commission "have worked well to advance a credible process."

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Hey, CNN get your act together. If I find out my temporary commenting ability has been stagnated because your corporate department decided to take the very poor advice of some flagged word 165$ an hour guru..I'm going to comment about that till the cows come home.

Evidently Craig,your comments are not conservative enough! You may have noticed that these right-wing creeps don't seem to have any problems with their posts and neither does Phunnie boy who keeps on poking fun at the troops.

Simple,Craig. Your comment apparently was not conservative enough. You might have noticed that all these right-wing nutjobs plus Phunnie boy are having no problems at all with their posts,to my chagrin!!!

What I want to know is why can't we have a decent list of intelligent comments here without a bunch of right-wing idiots blogging in here ,vomiting their ignoance every time? Don't answer me Phunnie boy,please but I guess you will anyway with one of your stupid jokes which are never funny as nobody laughs at them but you!!!

Ironically under the Communists none of this would've happened. We most probably should never have backed the Mujaheddin back in the 1970's and 1980's and if the Communists won out,the Russians would not have intervened.

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